“We developed these technologies over 15 years ago and demonstrated them widely, years before the marketplace had heard of interactive applications embedded in Web pages tapping into powerful remote resources,” Eolas Chairman Michael Doyle said in a statement sent to seattlepi.com. “Profiting from someone else’s innovation without payment is fundamentally unfair. All we want is what’s fair.”

The Tyler, Texas-based company is seeking permanent injunctions, triple damages and attorney fees.

The University of California, however, disclosed its piece of the settlement: $30.4 million.

The suit against Microsoft, filed in 1999, alleged the Redmond-based company violated patent No. 5,838,906. But Tuesday’s lawsuit adds another patent to the mix  one the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just granted on Tuesday morning.

Eolas didn’t waste any time.

“Obviously, we intended to file as soon as the patent was issued,” said Eolas’ attorney, Mike McKool of the McKool Smith firm in Dallas. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas  a known haven for small patent holders that sue larger companies.

The ‘906 patent covers the ability of Web browsers to act as platforms for interactive embedded applications. The new patent, No. 7,599,985, expands on the ‘906 patent, covering Web sites’ use of plug-ins and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to embed applications, according to the Eolas announcement.

After one rejection, Eolas’ ‘906 patent has withstood three USPTO reviews  most recently in February  and remains valid.

During the case against Microsoft, opponents said the lawsuit would destroy the future of the World Wide Web by limiting the use of Eolas’ patented technology. Though Microsoft changed parts of Internet Explorer in response to the case, that never happened.